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Accompanying Technical Documentation

  • The Developer's Help system in compiled HTML format is available in English. It contains a detailed description of the API and general information about licensing and activation.
  • The code samples which are provided with FineReader Engine 7.1 development toolkit will help developers understand how to use the API of FineReader Engine in typical scenarios. A developer may copy, modify or use them to create his own software program based on the FineReader Engine API.
  • The Administrator's Guide contains information on how to install FineReader Engine in the customer's LAN and how to manage licenses by using Network License Manager.

Developer Environments

  • Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET, C#);
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0;
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x and above;
  • VB Script, and other scripting languages;
  • Borland Delphi 2.0 and above;
  • Any other development environment that supports COM and ActiveX objects correctly.

Message Languages

Dialogue captions, text, error and other program messages are available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Estonian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Greek, Lithuanian, and Latvian.

System Requirements

Stand-Alone Runtime or Developer License Installation

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™ or compatible processor with a minimum of 200 MHz.
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT® 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows Me/98 (to work with localized interface, corresponding language support is required).
  • 64 MB RAM for Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT 4.0; 32 MB RAM for Windows Me/98. An additional 16 MB of RAM is required for each additional processor in a multi-processor system.
  • 90 MB hard-disk space for minimal runtime installation, 70 MB hard-disk space for program operation, 300 MB hard-disk for full developer installation.
  • 100% TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera, or fax modem.
  • Video card and monitor (min. resolution 800?600).
  • Keyboard, mouse or other input device.
  • The user must have read/write permissions to the following registry braches:
    • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY,
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY.

Network Runtime License Installation

System requirements for installing a runtime license fall into server requirements and workstation requirements:

Server Requirements
  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™ or compatible processor 200 MHz or higher.
  • Operating system:
    • For the software protection key: Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with SP6 or later, Windows Me/98.
    • For the hardware protection key: Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000.
  • 100 MB for minimal installation and 310 MB of free hard disk space for full program installation.
  • Read permissions for the administrative installation folder for all ABBYY FineReader Engine 7.1 users.
  • Write permissions for the License Manager subfolder for all ABBYY FineReader Engine 7.1 users.
  • Server should provide the number of connections no less that the number of ABBYY FineReader Engine 7.1 users. For example, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional provides no more than 10 simultaneous connections and using this server you can deploy the program on no more that 10 workstations.
Workstation Requirements

Minimum requirements for workstations that allow you to install and use ABBYY FineReader Engine 7.1 are as follows:

  • PC with Intel ® Pentium ®/Celeron ®/Xeon™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™ or compatible processor 200 MHz or higher.
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with SP6 or later, Windows Me/98 (for working with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required).
  • RAM requirements depend on the operating system you use: for Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT 4.0 – 64 ÌB; for Windows Me/98 – 32 ÌB, plus 16 MB of RAM for each additional processor (in the case of a multiprocessor system).
  • 290 MB of free hard disk space for minimal program installation plus 70 MB of free hard disk space for program operation.
  • 100%TWAIN compatible scanner, digital camera or fax modem.
  • Video card and monitor (min. resolution 800x600).
  • Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.
  • Read and write permissions to the following registry branches for all ABBYY FineReader Engine 7.1 users:
    • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY,
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY.

Input/Output Formats

Supported Image Input Formats:

  • BMP: black and white, gray, color.
  • PCX, DCX: black and white, gray, color.
  • JPEG: gray, color.
  • JPEG 2000, part1: gray, color.
  • PNG: black and white, gray, color.
  • TIFF: black and white, gray, color, multi-image. Methods of compression: Unpacked, CCITT Group 3, CCITT Group 3 FAX(2D), CCITT Group4, PackBits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW.
  • PDF.

Document Saving Formats:

  • Microsoft Word (DOC).
  • Rich Text Format (RTF).
  • Microsoft Word XML (XML), Microsoft Office Word 2003 only.
  • Native XML with FineReader Engine output-schema (XML).
  • Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF).
  • HTML. FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO) and Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT).
  • Comma Separated Values (CSV). FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO) and Unicode (UTF-16, UTF-8) encoding.
  • Plain Text (TXT). FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO) and Unicode (UTF-16, UTF-8) encoding.
  • Microsoft Excel (XLS).
  • DBF. FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO).

Recognition Languages

OCR:

  • 34 Main Languages, for which FineReader Engine provides dictionary support and spelling check system: Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium), English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (new and old spelling), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian.
  • 4 East Asian Languages: Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Japanese, and Korean.
  • 5 FineReader XIX Languages, for recognition of old European document printed in 17-19 th centuries: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
  • 133 Additional Languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek characters: Abkhaz, Adyghian, Afrikaans, Agul, Albanian, Altai, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Azerbaijani (Latin), Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Blackfoot, Breton, Bugotu, Buryat, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chukchee, Chuvash, Congo, Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Crow, Dakota, Dargwa, Dungan, Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin), Even, Evenki, Faeroese, Fijian, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, German (Luxemburg), Guarani, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingush, Irish, Jingpo, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-balkar, Karakalpak, Kasub, Kawa, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kikuyu, Kirghiz, Koryak, Kpelle, Kumyk, Kurdish, Lak, Latin, Lezgi, Luba, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malinke, Maltese, Mansy, Maori, Mari, Maya, Miao, Minangkabau, Mohawk, Moldavian, Mongol, Mordvin, Nahuatl, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay, Nyanja, Ojibway, Ossetian, Papiamento, Provencal, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romany, Rundi, Russian (old spelling), Rwanda, Sami (Lappish), Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Selkup, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Shona, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Sunda, Swahili, Swazi, Tabasaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tswana, Tun, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Udmurt, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin), Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Zapotec, Zulu.
  • 4 Artificial Languages: Esperanto, Interlingua, Ido and Occidental.
  • 6 Programming Languages: Basic, C/C++, COBOL, Fortran, JAVA and Pascal.
  • Simple chemical formulas.
  • Digits.
  • Tools for creating user-defined languages.

ICR:

  • 17 languages with Latin characters: Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgian), English, Finnish, French, German, German (new spelling), Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish.
  • Greek.
  • 3 languages with Cyrillic charactersAvailable only upon request: Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian.
  • Supports 22 styles of hand-writing of different countries and areas: European, American, Canadian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Thai.
  • The set of characters which could be recognized by the ICR add-on module covers 90 languages. 21 languages, listed above, have morphology/dictionary support.

Barcode Types

  • 1D: Check Code 39, Check Interleaved 25, Code 128, Code 39, EAN 13, EAN 8, Interleaved 25, CODABAR (without checksum), UCC Code 128, Code 2 of 5 (Industrial, IATA, Matrix), Code 93, UPC-A, UPC-E and Postnet.
  • 2D: PDF 417.
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